May 2024

Global Cosmetic Industry May 2024

May 2024

Sustainability is driving packaging for beauty, meanwhile scalp care tops the hair care trends.

May Insider Insights: Packaging for Beauty Launches + Hair Care Ingredient Launches

Forty-seven percent of consumers say they spend less than $30 per month on their hair and scalp care products, with 16% spending between $31 and $45.

What Consumers Want from Hair Care in 2024

Givaudan Active Beauty's Illuminyl 388 is an augmented green tea polyphenol (EGCG; epigallocatechin gallate) prebiotic skin brightening active with universal efficacy against skin pigmentation for all skin types.

Skin Pigmentation 2.0: May 2024 Beauty Trend Tracker

Baralan has collaborated with 3D printing specialist Stratasys and glass/plastic coatings specialist ICA to launch GP3DPrint, a water-based 3D decorating service for cosmetic packaging.

Packaging Trend Tracker: May 2024

Since December 2023, online searches for “whole body deodorant” have exploded, dwarfing traffic recorded over the last 20 years. Why is that?

The Whole-body Revolution

New systems are designed to track the identity and authenticity of natural ingredients, finished products, and more.

Beauty’s Next-Level Traceability

Tweens love beauty for a complex mix of reasons.

Teens x Beauty: a Growing Love Affair

Skinification of hair care

6 Hair Care Innovation Hot Spots for 2024

From calming scents to invigorating fragrance notes, mood- and emotion-forward design is winning over beauty's youngest shoppers.

Fragrance’s Moody Moment

According to Euromonitor International’s Voice of Consumer, Beauty Survey 2023, Chinese beauty consumers embrace beauty devices at a higher rate than the global average. Electric facial toners, for example, were used at home by almost 17% of Chinese beauty consumers—up from 13% in 2020.

Lessons from China’s Beauty Tech Market

Overall, lip makeup was a top performer in the prestige beauty category 2023, per Circana, spiking 31% year-over-year, or twice the rate of the overall category.

The Lip Boom: Beauty x Care